1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480212403321

Autore

Honig Bonnie

Titolo

Public Things : Democracy in Disrepair / / Bonnie Honig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-8232-7644-9

0-8232-7706-2

0-8232-7643-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 pages)

Collana

Thinking Out Loud

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Democracy - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Opting Out -- Introduction. Thinking Out Loud -- Lecture One: Democracy’s Necessary Conditions -- Lecture Two: Care and Concern: Arendt with Winnicott -- Lecture Three: Hope and Play: Jonathan Lear’s Radical Hope and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia -- Epilogue: Public Things, Shared Space, and the Commons -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and privatization is seen as a magic cure for social ills. In Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair, Bonnie Honig asks whether democracy is possible in the absence of public services, spaces, and utilities. In other words, if neoliberalism leaves to democracy merely electoral majoritarianism and procedures of deliberation while divesting democratic states of their ownership of public things, what will the impact be? Following Tocqueville, who extolled the virtues of “pursuing in common the objects of common desires,” Honig focuses not on the demos but on the objects of democratic life. Democracy, as she points out, postulates public things—infrastructure, monuments, libraries—that citizens use, care



for, repair, and are gathered up by. To be “gathered up” refers to the work of D. W. Winnicott, the object relations psychoanalyst who popularized the idea of “transitional objects”—the toys, teddy bears, or favorite blankets by way of which infants come to understand themselves as unified selves with an inside and an outside in relation to others. The wager of Public Things is that the work transitional objects do for infants is analogously performed for democratic citizens by public things, which press us into object relations with others and with ourselves. Public Things attends also to the historically racial character of public things: public lands taken from indigenous peoples, access to public goods restricted to white majorities. Drawing on Hannah Arendt, who saw how things fabricated by humans lend stability to the human world, Honig shows how Arendt and Winnicott—both theorists of livenesss—underline the material and psychological conditions necessary for object permanence and the reparative work needed for a more egalitarian democracy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003688239707536

Autore

Proust, Marcel

Titolo

L'indifferente / Marcel Proust ; introduzione di Giorgio Agamben ; con testo a fronte e una nota di Philip Kolb ; traduzione di Mariolina Bongiovanni Bertini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Einaudi, [1978]

Descrizione fisica

78 p. : ill. color. ; 22 cm

Collana

Narratori Einaudi

Altri autori (Persone)

Agamben, Giorgio

Bongiovanni Bertini, Mariolina

Kolb, Philip

Disciplina

843.912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996336379903316

Titolo

ESAIM Control, optimisation and calculus of variations

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Paris], : E D P Sciences, [1995]-

ISSN

1262-3377

Soggetti

System analysis

Calculus of variations

Mathematical analysis

Systems Analysis

Analyse de systèmes

Calcul des variations

Analyse mathématique

systems analysis

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed